CONTENTS
CONTENTS
SEVEN BOOKS ON THE INCARNATION OF THE LORD, AGAINST NESTORIUS
PREFACE
BOOK I
CHAPTER I: THE HERESY COMPARED TO THE HYDRA OF THE POETS
CHAPTER II: DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT HERETICAL MONSTERS WHICH SPRING FROM ONE ANOTHER
CHAPTER III: HE DESCRIBES THE PESTILENT ERROR OF THE PELAGIAN
CHAPTER IV: LEPORIUS TOGETHER WITH SOME OTHERS RECANTS HIS PELAGIANISM
CHAPTER V: BY THE CASE OF LEPORIUS HE ESTABLISHES THE FACT THAT AN OPEN SIN OUGHT TO BE EXPIATED BY AN OPEN CONFESSION; AND ALSO TEACHES FROM HIS WORDS WHAT IS THE RIGHT VIEW TO BE HELD ON THE INCARNATION
CHAPTER VI: THE UNITED DOCTRINE OF THE CATHOLICS IS TO BE RECEIVED AS THE ORTHODOX FAITH
BOOK II
CHAPTER I: HOW THE ERRORS OF LATER HERETICS HAVE BEEN CONDEMNED AND REFUTED IN THE PERSONS OF THEIR AUTHORS AND ORIGINATORS
CHAPTER II: PROOF THAT THE VIRGIN MOTHER OF GOD WAS NOT ONLY CHRISTOTOCOS BUT ALSO THEOTOCOS, AND THAT CHRIST IS TRULY GOD
CHAPTER III: FOLLOWS UP THE SAME ARGUMENT WITH PASSAGES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
CHAPTER IV: HE PRODUCES TESTIMONIES TO THE SAME DOCTRINE FROM THE APOSTLE PAUL
CHAPTER V: FROM THE GIFTS OF DIVINE GRACE WHICH WE RECEIVE THROUGH CHRIST HE INFERS THAT HE IS TRULY GOD
CHAPTER VI: THAT THE POWER OF BESTOWING DIVINE GRACE DID NOT COME TO CHRIST IN THE COURSE OF TIME, BUT WAS INNATE IN HIM FROM HIS VERY BIRTH
CHAPTER VII: HOW IN CHRIST THE DIVINITY, MAJESTY, MIGHT AND POWER HAVE EXISTED IN PERFECTION FROM ETERNITY, AND WILL CONTINUE
BOOK III
CHAPTER I: THAT CHRIST, WHO IS GOD AND MAN IN THE UNITY OF PERSON, SPRANG FROM ISRAEL AND THE VIRGIN MARY ACCORDING TO THE FLESH
CHAPTER II: THE TITLE OF GOD IS GIVEN IN ONE SENSE TO CHRIST, AND IN ANOTHER TO MEN
CHAPTER III: HE EXPLAINS THE APOSTLE’S SAYING: “IF FROM HENCEFORTH WE KNOW NO MAN ACCORDING TO THE FLESH,” ETC
CHAPTER IV: FROM THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS HE BRINGS FORWARD A PASSAGE TO SHOW THAT THE WEAKNESS OF THE FLESH IN CHRIST WAS ABSORBED BY HIS DIVINITY
CHAPTER V: AS IT IS BLASPHEMY TO PARE AWAY THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST, SO ALSO IS IT BLASPHEMOUS TO DENY THAT HE IS TRUE MAN
CHAPTER VI: HE SHOWS FROM THE APPEARANCE OF CHRIST VOUCHSAFED TO THE APOSTLE WHEN PERSECUTING THE CHURCH, THE EXISTENCE OF BOTH NATURES IN HIM
CHAPTER VII: HE SHOWS ONCE MORE BY OTHER PASSAGES OF THE APOSTLE THAT CHRIST IS GOD
CHAPTER VIII: WHEN CONFESSING THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST WE OUGHT NOT TO PASS OVER IN SILENCE THE CONFESSION OF THE CROSS
CHAPTER IX: HOW THE APOSTLE’S PREACHING WAS REJECTED BY JEWS AND GENTILES BECAUSE IT CONFESSED THAT THE CRUCIFIED CHRIST WAS GOD
CHAPTER X: HOW THE APOSTLE MAINTAINS THAT CHRIST IS THE POWER OF GOD AND THE WISDOM OF GOD
CHAPTER XI: HE SUPPORTS THE SAME DOCTRINE BY PROOFS FROM THE GOSPEL
CHAPTER XII: HE PROVES FROM THE RENOWNED CONFESSION OF THE BLESSED PETER THAT CHRIST IS GOD
CHAPTER XIII: THE CONFESSION OF THE BLESSED PETER RECEIVES A TESTIMONY TO ITS TRUTH FROM CHRIST HIMSELF
CHAPTER XIV: HOW THE CONFESSION OF THE BLESSED PETER IS THE FAITH OF THE WHOLE CHURCH
CHAPTER XV: ST. THOMAS ALSO CONFESSED THE SAME FAITH AS PETER AFTER THE LORD’S RESURRECTION
CHAPTER XVI: HE BRINGS FORWARD THE WITNESS OF GOD THE FATHER TO THE DIVINITY OF THE SON
BOOK IV
CHAPTER I: THAT CHRIST WAS BEFORE THE INCARNATION GOD FROM EVERLASTING
CHAPTER II: HE INFERS FROM WHAT HE HAS SAID THAT THE VIRGIN MARY GAVE BIRTH TO A SON WHO HAD PRE- EXISTED AND WAS GREATER THAN SHE HERSELF WAS
CHAPTER III: HE PROVES FROM THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS THE ETERNAL DIVINITY OF CHRIST
CHAPTER IV: HE BRINGS FORWARD OTHER TESTIMONIES TO THE SAME VIEW
CHAPTER V: HOW IN VIRTUE OF THE HYPOSTATIC UNION OF THE TWO NATURES IN CHRIST THE WORD IS RIGHTLY TERMED THE SAVIOUR, OR INCARNATE MAN, AND THE SON OF GOD
CHAPTER VI: THAT THERE IS IN CHRIST BUT ONE HYPOSTASIS (I.E., PERSONAL SELF)
CHAPTER VII: HE RETURNS TO THE FORMER SUBJECT, IN ORDER TO SHOW AGAINST THE NESTORIANS THAT THOSE THINGS ARE SAID OF THE MAN, WHICH BELONG TO THE DIVINE NATURE AS IT WERE OF A PERSON OF DIVINE NATURE, AND CONVERSELY THAT THOSE THINGS ARE SAID OF GOD, WHICH BELONG TO THE HUMAN NATURE AS IT WERE OF A PERSON OF HUMAN NATURE, BECAUSE THERE IS IN CHRIST BUT ONE AND A SINGLE PERSONAL SELF
CHAPTER VIII: HOW THIS INTERCHANGE OF TITLES DOES NOT INTERFERE WITH HIS DIVINE POWER
CHAPTER IX: HE CORROBORATES THIS STATEMENT BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE OLD PROPHETS
CHAPTER X: HE PROVES CHRIST’S DIVINITY FROM THE BLASPHEMY OF JUDAIZING JEWS AS WELL AS FROM THE CONFESSION OF CONVERTS TO THE FAITH OF CHRIST
CHAPTER XI: HE RETURNS TO THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH
CHAPTER. XII: HOW THE TITLE OF SAVIOUR IS GIVEN TO CHRIST IN ONE SENSE, AND TO MEN IN ANOTHER
CHAPTER XIII: HE EXPLAINS WHO ARE THOSE IN WHOSE PERSON THE PROPHET ISAIAH SAYS
BOOK V
CHAPTER I: HE VEHEMENTLY INVEIGHS AGAINST THE ERROR OF THE PELAGIANS, WHO DECLARED THAT CHRIST WAS A MERE MAN
CHAPTER II: THAT THE DOCTRINE OF NESTORIUS IS CLOSELY CONNECTED WITH THE ERROR OF THE PELAGIANS
CHAPTER III: HOW THIS PARTICIPATION IN DIVINITY WHICH THE PELAGIANS AND NESTORIANS ATTRIBUTE TO CHRIST, IS COMMON TO ALL HOLY MEN
CHAPTER IV: WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS BETWEEN CHRIST AND THE SAINTS
CHAPTER V: THAT BEFORE HIS BIRTH IN TIME CHRIST WAS ALWAYS CALLED GOD BY THE PROPHETS
CHAPTER VI: HE ILLUSTRATES THE SAME DOCTRINE BY PASSAGES FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT
CHAPTER VII: HE SHOWS AGAIN FROM THE UNION IN CHRIST OF TWO NATURES IN ONE PERSON THAT WHAT BELONGS TO THE DIVINE NATURE MAY RIGHTLY BE ASCRIBED TO MAN, AND WHAT BELONGS TO THE HUMAN NATURE TO GOD
CHAPTER VIII: HE CONFIRMS THE JUDGMENT OF THE APOSTLE BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE LORD
CHAPTER IX: SINCE THOSE MARVELLOUS WORKS WHICH FROM THE DAYS OF MOSES WERE SHOWN TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ARE ATTRIBUTED TO CHRIST, IT FOLLOWS THAT HE MUST HAVE EXISTED LONG BEFORE HIS BIRTH IN TIME
CHAPTER X: HE EXPLAINS WHAT IT MEANS TO CONFESS, AND WHAT IT MEANS TO DISSOLVE JESUS
CHAPTER XI: THE MYSTERY OF THE LORD’S INCARNATION CLEARLY IMPLIES THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST
CHAPTER XII: HE EXPLAINS MORE FULLY WHAT THE MYSTERY IS WHICH IS SIGNIFIED UNDER THE NAME OF THE MAN AND WIFE
CHAPTER XIII: OF THE LONGING WITH WHICH THE OLD PATRIARCHS DESIRED TO SEE THE REVELATION OF THAT MYSTERY
CHAPTER XIV: HE REFUTES THE WICKED AND BLASPHEMOUS NOTION OF THE HERETICS WHO SAID THAT GOD DWELT AND SPOKE IN CHRIST AS IN AN INSTRUMENT OR A STATUE
CHAPTER XV: WHAT THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS FOR THE COMING OF MESSIAH CONTAINED; AND WHAT WAS THE NATURE OF THAT LONGING OF THEIRS
BOOK VI
CHAPTER I: FROM THE MIRACLE OF THE FEEDING OF THE MULTITUDE FROM FIVE BARLEY LOAVES AND TWO FISHES HE SHOWS THE MAJESTY OF DIVINE POWER
CHAPTER II: THE AUTHOR ADAPTS THE MYSTERY OF THE NUMBER SEVEN (MADE UP OF THE FIVE LOAVES AND TWO FISHES) TO HIS OWN WORK
CHAPTER III: HE REFUTES HIS OPPONENT BY THE TESTIMONY OF THE COUNCIL OF ANTIOCH
CHAPTER IV: HOW THE CREED HAS AUTHORITY DIVINE AS WELL AS HUMAN
CHAPTER V: HE PROCEEDS AGAINST HIS OPPONENT WITH THE CHOICEST ARGUMENTS, AND SHOWS THAT WE OUGHT TO HOLD FAST TO THE RELIGION WHICH WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM OUR FATHERS
CHAPTER VI: ONCE MORE HE CHALLENGES HIM TO THE PROFESSION OF THE CREED OF ANTIOCH
CHAPTER VII: HE CONTINUES THE SAME LINE OF ARGUMENT DRAWN FROM THE CREED OF ANTIOCH
CHAPTER VIII: HOW IT CAN BE SAID THAT CHRIST CAME AND WAS BORN OF A VIRGIN
CHAPTER IX: AGAIN HE CONVICTS HIS OPPONENT OF DEADLY HERESY BY HIS OWN CONFESSION
CHAPTER X: HE INVEIGHS AGAINST HIM BECAUSE THOUGH HE HAS FORSAKEN THE CATHOLIC RELIGION, HE NEVERTHELESS PRESUMES TO TEACH IN THE CHURCH, TO SACRIFICE, AND TO GIVE DECISIONS
CHAPTER XI: HE REMOVES THE SILENT OBJECTION OF HERETICS WHO WANT TO RECANT THE PROFESSION OF THEIR FAITH MADE IN CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER XII: CHRIST CRUCIFIED IS AN OFFENCE AND FOOLISHNESS TO THOSE WHO DECLARE THAT HE WAS A MERE MAN
CHAPTER XIII: HE REPLIES TO THE OBJECTION IN WHICH THEY SAY THAT THE CHILD BORN OUGHT TO BE OF ONE SUBSTANCE WITH THE MOTHER
CHAPTER XIV: HE COMPARES THIS ERRONEOUS VIEW WITH THE TEACHING OF THE PELAGIANS
CHAPTER XV: HE SHOWS THAT THOSE WHO PATRONIZE THIS FALSE TEACHING ACKNOWLEDGE TWO CHRISTS
CHAPTER XVI: HE SHOWS FURTHER THAT THIS TEACHING IS DESTRUCTIVE OF THE CONFESSION OF THE TRINITY
CHAPTER XVII: THOSE WHO ARE UNDER AN ERROR IN ONE POINT OF THE CATHOLIC RELIGION, LOSE THE WHOLE FAITH, AND ALL THE VALUE OF THE FAITH
CHAPTER XVIII: HE DIRECTS HIS DISCOURSE UPON HIS ANTAGONIST WITH WHOM HE IS DISPUTING, AND BEGS HIM TO RETURN TO HIS SENSES. THE SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION IS NECESSARY FOR THE LAPSED FOR THEIR SALVATION
CHAPTER XIX: THAT THE BIRTH OF CHRIST IN TIME DIMINISHED NOTHING OF THE GLORY AND POWER OF HIS DEITY
CHAPTER XX: HE SHOWS FROM WHAT HAS BEEN SAID THAT WE DO NOT MEAN THAT GOD WAS MORTAL OR OF FLESH BEFORE THE WORLDS, ALTHOUGH CHRIST, WHO IS GOD FROM ETERNITY AND WAS MADE MAN IN TIME, IS BUT ONE PERSON
CHAPTER XXI: THE AUTHORITY OF HOLY SCRIPTURE TEACHES THAT CHRIST EXISTED FROM ALL ETERNITY
CHAPTER XXII: THE HYPOSTATIC UNION ENABLES US TO ASCRIBE TO GOD WHAT BELONGS TO THE FLESH IN CHRIST
CHAPTER XXIII: THAT THE FIGURE SYNECDOCHE, IN WHICH THE PART STANDS FOR THE WHOLE, IS VERY FAMILIAR TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURE
BOOK VII
CHAPTER I: AS HE IS GOING TO REPLY TO THE SLANDERS OF HIS OPPONENTS HE IMPLORES THE AID OF DIVINE GRACE TO TEACH A PRAYER TO BE USED BY THOSE WHO UNDERTAKE TO DISPUTE WITH HERETICS
CHAPTER II: HE MEETS THE OBJECTION TAKEN FROM THESE WORDS: NO ONE GAVE BIRTH TO ONE WHO HAD EXISTED BEFORE HER
CHAPTER III: HE REPLIES TO THE CAVIL THAT THE ONE WHO IS BORN MUST BE OF ONE SUBSTANCE WITH THE ONE WHO BEARS
CHAPTER IV: HOW GOD HAS SHOWN HIS OMNIPOTENCE IN HIS BIRTH IN TIME AS WELL AS IN EVERYTHING ELSE
CHAPTER V: HE SHOWS BY PROOFS DRAWN FROM NATURE ITSELF, THAT THE LAW WHICH HIS OPPONENTS LAY DOWN; VIZ., THAT THE ONE BORN OUGHT TO BE OF ONE SUBSTANCE WITH THE ONE WHO BEARS, FAILS TO HOLD GOOD IN MANY CASES
CHAPTER VI: HE REFUTES ANOTHER ARGUMENT OF NESTORIUS, IN WHICH HE TRIED TO MAKE OUT THAT CHRIST WAS LIKE ADAM IN EVERY POINT
CHAPTER VII: HERETICS USUALLY COVER THEIR DOCTRINES WITH A CLOAK OF HOLY SCRIPTURE
CHAPTER IX: HOW THOSE. ARE WRONG WHO SAY THAT THE BIRTH OF CHRIST WAS A SECRET, SINCE IT WAS CLEARLY SHOWN EVEN TO THE PATRIARCH JACOB
CHAPTER X: HE COLLECTS MORE WITNESSES OF THE SAME FACT
CHAPTER XI: HOW THE DEVIL WAS FORCED BY MANY REASONS TO THE VIEW THAT CHRIST WAS GOD
CHAPTER XII: HE COMPARES THIS NOTION AND REASONABLE SUSPICION OF THE DEVIL WITH THE OBSTINATE AND INFLEXIBLE IDEA OF HIS OPPONENTS, AND SHOWS THAT THIS LAST IS WORSE AND MORE BLASPHEMOUS THAN THE FORMER
CHAPTER XIII: HOW THE DEVIL ALWAYS RETAINED THIS NOTION OF CHRIST’S DIVINITY (BECAUSE OF HIS SECRET WORKING WHICH HE EXPERIENCED) EVEN UP TO HIS CROSS AND DEATH
CHAPTER XIV: HE SHOWS HOW HERETICS PERVERT HOLY SCRIPTURE, BY REPLYING TO THE ARGUMENT DRAWN FROM THE APOSTLE’S WORDS, “WITHOUT FATHER, WITHOUT MOTHER,” ETC.: HEB. VII
CHAPTER XV: HOW CHRIST COULD BE SAID BY THE APOSTLE TO BE WITHOUT GENEALOGY
CHAPTER XVI: HE SHOWS THAT LIKE THE DEVIL WHEN TEMPTING CHRIST, THE HERETICS GARBLE AND PERVERT HOLY SCRIPTURE
CHAPTER XVII: THAT THE GLORY AND HONOUR OF CHRIST IS NOT TO BE ASCRIBED TO THE HOLY GHOST IN SUCH A WAY AS TO DENY THAT IT PROCEEDS FROM CHRIST HIMSELF, AS IF ALL THAT EXCELLENCY, WHICH WAS IN HIM, WAS ANOTHER’S AND PROCEEDED FROM ANOTHER SOURCE
CHAPTER XVIII: HOW WE ARE TO UNDERSTAND THE APOSTLE’S WORDS: “HE APPEARED IN THE FLESH, WAS JUSTIFIED IN THE SPIRIT,” ETC
CHAPTER XIX: THAT IT WAS NOT ONLY THE SPIRIT, BUT CHRIST HIMSELF ALSO WHO MADE HIM TO BE FEARED
CHAPTER XX: HE TRIES BY STRONGER AND WEIGHTIER ARGUMENTS TO DESTROY THAT NOTION
CHAPTER XXI: THAT IT MUST BE ASCRIBED EQUALLY TO CHRIST AND THE HOLY GHOST THAT HIS FLESH AND HUMANITY BECAME THE TEMPLE OF GOD
CHAPTER XXII: THAT THE RAISING UP OF CHRIST INTO HEAVEN IS NOT TO BE ASCRIBED TO THE SPIRIT ALONE
CHAPTER XXIII: HECONTINUES THE SAME ARGUMENT TO SHOW THAT CHRIST HAD NO NEED OF ANOTHER’S GLORY AS HE HAD A GLORY OF HIS OWN
CHAPTER XXIV: HE SUPPORTS THIS DOCTRINE BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE BLESSED HILARY
CHAPTER XXV: HE SHOWS THAT AMBROSE AGREES WITH S. HILARY
CHAPTER XXVI: HE ADDS TO THE FOREGOING THE TESTIMONY OF S. JEROME
CHAPTER XXVII: TO THE FOREGOING HE ADDS RUFINUS AND THE BLESSED AUGUSTINE
CHAPTER XXVIII: AS HE IS GOING TO PRODUCE THE TESTIMONY OF GREEK OR EASTERN BISHOPS, HE BRINGS FORWARD IN THE FIRST PLACE
S. Gregory Nazianzen.
CHAPTER XXIX: IN THE NEXT PLACE HE PUTS THE AUTHORITY OF S. ATHANASIUS
CHAPTER XXX: HE ADDS ALSO S. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
CHAPTER XXXI: HE BEMOANS THE UNHAPPY LOT OF CONSTANTINOPLE, OWING TO THE MISFORTUNE WHICH HAS OVERTAKEN IT FROM THAT HERETIC; AND AT THE SAME TIME HE URGES THE CITIZENS TO STAND FAST IN THE ANCIENT CATHOLIC AND ANCESTRAL FAITH
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